Go over digraphs, vowel sounds, and affixes with a series of decoding and spelling lessons. Each lesson guides learners through a different reading and phonics skill, building on the lesson before, and challenging them with each step.

You won't have to force your classes to complete these engaging activities! Through exploration, young scientists learn that force has both magnitude and direction. They draw force diagrams, investigate force models, and complete a...

Learn about the study of medications, including those found in nature and those made synthetically. The first of four lessons in a series on pharmacology includes lectures, hands-on experiments, research, and more.

Great literature discussions are a consequence of carefully crafted questions, interpretative questions that permit more than one response, and responses supported by specific evidence from the text. The discussion questions in a guide...

Chromosomes contain keys to history including links from royalty to Neanderthals. Young scientists learn about Ivan Wallin's research into chromosomes with an animation and videos. Then, the concept connects to mysteries related to...

Students investigate reference sources that include knowledge of travel and tourism destinations. They examine specific travel information for UK and wider European travel.

Students analyze Frida Kahlo's paintings to determine how she used them for self-expression. They create a personal piece of art to express sentiments on a particular subject.

Sixth graders use information that they have gathered to create a multimedia presentation using a program such as PowerPoint or HyperStudio. They use a bibliography sheet to cite all information they have gathered.

In this organisms instructional activity, 9th graders look at each picture of insects and use the key at the bottom of the sheet to determine which order they belong to. Then they explain which insect is a true bug and which is a true...

Sixth graders choose a topic for an Oceanography report, discuss copyright law and the need to cite sources. They use the bibliography sheet gather information and graphics. Students complete a research project using research,...

In this reading worksheet, students use this graphic organizer/story map to record the important parts of a piece of literature. Students record the setting, characters, problem, solution and ending.

Students simulate the effects of alcohol on their vision and motor skills. Then, after doing additional research on the dangers of driving while intoxicated, students create an educational activity that might convince a particular target a

"How do photographs contribute to an autobiography?" Laurence Yep's The Lost Garden provides learners with an opportunity to examine how photos and their captions contribute to and clarify events in a story. Class members use expressive...

Students play a game to practice how to tell time. They play a game of battleship in which they try to find out where his or her partner's battleships are, using .day/time references. The winner is the first to find all of the other...

In this language arts worksheet, students practice using synonyms by deciphering references to well-known fairy tales and nursery rhymes. Example: Unique Individual Mortally Injured in Fall (Humpty Dumpty Sat on a Wall.)

This lesson is uncomplicated, consisting of a brief introduction to the Grecian landscape and climate, and then having individuals choose an animal in Greece to research. The youngsters display their information gathered on a poster. Be...

Are all academicians allured with alliteration? Use this cross-curricular online resource to simultaneously expose your scholars to parts of speech and the genetic mutation causing albinism. Initial context gives students an introduction...

How and when to use parenthetical citations in research writing is the focus of a text-heavy presentation appropriate to high school seniors or college level writers. The bulk of the slides, designed to illustrate a lecture, deal with...

Don't underestimate the value of a clean mouth! Here is a six-lesson unit that details everything a youngster needs to know about oral hygiene. It includes lessons on the purpose of a mouth and teeth, the nature of oral...

Two babies, two fathers, two experiences, two worlds. Partners craft two-voice poems to capture the points of view of two men with very different lives who have just become fathers.

In this language arts worksheet, students learn the capitalization rules. Students read the information, then complete 8 pages of exercises. Students capitalize names, license plates, post codes (UK) and abbreviations. Students rewrite...

Learners make drawings of their classmates in photographs.

Eighth graders research a project of their choice in relation to a career they may want. In this language arts lesson, 8th graders create a bibliography of references used both print and online sources. Students make an outline of their...

Sixth graders research Greek mythology and explore mythological references. In this Greek mythology instructional activity, 6th graders view a PowerPoint about Greek mythology and read myths and their characteristics. Students discuss...